R. Kelly

R. Kelly
Character Information
Gender	Male
Race	African-American
Hair	Black
Age	58
Date of Birth	January 8, 1967
Occupation	Singer/Songwriter
Religion	Christian
Voiced by	Trey Parker
Wikipedia	R. Kelly
Appearances
First	"Trapped in the Closet"

For other uses, see Kelly (Disambiguation).

Robert Sylvester Kelly is an American singer and songwriter, who appears in the Season Nine episode, "Trapped in the Closet".

Background

In "Fat Camp", Butters collects the manatee remains Kenny McCormick had vomited with his "R. Kelly Cup" (an actual bottle with the face of R. Kelly and his name written above the picture) and gives it to Kenny so he'd eat it back after all the kids were willing to give him money to do so.

In "Trapped in the Closet", the local news media asks him to sing to Tom Cruise, who is refusing to come out of Stan Marsh's closet. When John Travolta joins Tom Cruise in the closet, R. Kelly pulls out a gun and holds a woman in the crowd hostage. He eventually joins Tom Cruise and John Travolta in the closet and sings with them. When he leaves with them at the episode's conclusion, he looks timid and scared, implying they sexually abused him. He is later seen at the MTV Music Awards in "Britney's New Look".

Appearance

R. Kelly has a thick black beard, as well as black eyebrows that are very close to eyes. He wears a creme suit, creme pants, a white v-neck, and an earring on his right ear.

Images of R. Kelly

"...and I pull out my gun!"

"If Tom Cruise and John Travolta don't come out of the closet I'm gonna cap this b****."

"Two, I'm gonna cap some b****."

Personality

R. Kelly seems to obsessively sing every word he says. He carries around a small pistol, which he has no problems using to intimidate others into getting what he wants. His personality in the episode is a homage to his exaggerated personality in his musical video series also called Trapped in the Closet.

Trivia

• R. Kelly is infamously known in real life for videotaping himself having sex with underage girls and was even charged with child pornography. He would eventually be convicted on nine federal sex trafficking charges on September 27, 2021. and again on six additional charges on September 14, 2022.
  • Strangely, this was not parodied in Trapped in the Closet, perhaps due to being too obvious and repetitive of a thing to target Kelly for in a parody; comedians such as Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock had already made numerous jokes and parodies about the situation.

References

Minor Characters from Season Nine

Animal Liberation Front | Bill Owens | Blonde-Haired Girl | Brian ("Free Willzyx") | Chinese Mafia | Clark Denver Sea Park Security Guard | Doctor Lindsay | Dr. Biber | Dr. Pal | Hippies | Jakartha | Jambu | John Travolta | Karate Instructor | Laura | Marjorine | Mike ("Free Willzyx") | Nicole Kidman | Nut Gobbler | Q-Money | R. Kelly | Shauna | Super Awesome Talent Agency | Sylvester Stallone | Tom Cruise | Tom Nelson | Wing Han Tsang | Xenu | Zazul More information: List of Minor Characters from Season Nine | Season Nine